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MITIGET: BRINGING WORLD-CLASS TECH SERVICES TO THE NIGERIAN FIRMS IN AREAS OF CYBER-SECRITY, DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS AND CAPACITY BUILDING

 

Globally, corporate organizations and businesses are digitizing and protecting their infrastructure, Nigeria inclusive. In this light, Mitiget Assurance and Technology Services Limited operating with the brand name Mitiget, an indigenous information security (InfoSec) company with international affiliates has promised Nigerian business ecosystem of offering a robust and unmatched data security, IT, and compliance solutions to them.
Speaking to the media, the Chief Executive Officer of Mitiget, Sunny Ukeachu said that “as an enterprise Information Security company, we are enabling small and large organizations and business to build efficient information management and functional security resilience. We hand-hold them through building governance for their critical information while using technological innovations to support their strategies of meeting business goals. Our promise is to deliver measurable value from where we take over, a minimum of 25% improvement. Just as our mission statement, we are poised to make a mark in African markets and globally by providing superior assurance and technology solutions to our customers through innovations, professionalism, and ethics. And we have done quite a bit.”

He added that “As part of our security solution offering, we bundle information technology as a leverage for businesses to create value. For instance, in delivering a secure data center, record management for our customers, we design, implement, secure and support all the IT infrastructure, be it, structured cabling for data, voice or power, physical security including CCTV, Access control, vaults, perimeter reinforcement and networking covering supply, configuration and hardening of switches, routers, firewalls and access points, the deployment of IT hardware with supporting applications and services including cloud services. If you are moving into a new office and need a partner to work with for your end-to-end IT and secure tech services, you cannot go wrong with Mitiget. We try to balance leading-edge technology innovation with highly skilled resources to deliver cost-effective, dependable, and adaptive IT solutions that meet or exceed our customer needs.”

The organization has recently made impact in other African nations making it an export for Nigeria and bringing in the much-needed foreign exchange. Mitiget has overtime demonstrated capacity to deliver solutions not only locally but to an international scale. Ukeachu said “We have done couple of interventions for organizations in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa helping them improve business and IT risk management maturity especially around relevant frameworks and international standards. We also have done a lot of work in reducing operational risks for many businesses by helping them go paperless. You are aware that business communications are largely paper based. Over-time, the paper documents grow in an uncontrollable volume exposing the organization to financial and reputational risks. Our end-to-end records management solution is the answer to this challenge. It does not matter the volume, how messy your archive is, we guarantee 100% success in all our projects. Another area we have excelled is in the provision of Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions. We are the number BCP facility provider in Nigeria. Some financial institutions use our facility to run their periodic BCP/DRP tests to ensure resilience and to meet regulatory requirement.”

Sunny Ukeachu,CEO ,Mitiget Ltd.

On capacity building, Mitiget Learning Academy (MLA) is an arm of Mitiget that provides cutting edge technical and specialist learning interventions and capacity building endeavors for small, medium, and large-scale enterprises both in public and private sectors in Nigeria. Ukeachu opined that “This was our way of helping to develop relevant skills to support our teeming unemployed and unemployable youths. All our courses are hands-on, and project driven with the objective of exposing the trainees to real-life tasks and problem solving. Those that would want to take up a career in cybersecurity, risk management, python programming, web and mobile app development should make Mitiget learning Academy their starting point to build requisite capability to be relevant in the marketplace.”
Mitiget also provides cloud service to firms. “Apart from the adoption of remote working and enabling services and technologies, focus also shifted to hybrid cloud, solid-state storage, and sustainability measures in the data center space. Demand for cloud services will continue even in the coming year. For MSMEs and large organizations conscious of protecting their data, they should think of Mitiget. We do data right anytime, any day, anywhere. We are the home of information management and security expertise. Whether you need a complete design, incremental improvements, accredited servicing, and maintenance or even IT infrastructure decommissioning, we make them happen”, Ukeachu concluded.

 

 

Anthony Emeka Nwosu

 

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